"Lost again... completely and utterly lost..." Yukino Yukinoshita's expression was downright awful as she thought that.
Yukino had long known that Sogo Doma's cooking skills were exceptionally profound. After all, after tasting the food he cooked, she had begun to wonder whether everything she had eaten in the past had merely been feed...
Yet Yukino had never connected Sogo Doma with the Totsuki Elite Ten. That was only natural. For one thing, becoming a chef had never been one of her goals, and she had only learned a little cooking in home economics class. Besides, compared to taste, she placed greater importance on balanced nutrition!
Probably...
Fine, before Mashiro started feeding her, Yukino had always believed that nutrition was what she valued more. She was not someone who indulged in the pleasures of eating! As for after Mashiro began feeding her, the young lady who ate Baumkuchen as a meal every day had no desire to say anything. She just needed to eat in peace.
Secondly, Yukino had no one around her to use as a reference. Her only source of reference was probably her memory of attending a Totsuki event. Yet human memory was often deceptive! In fact, the more shocking a memory was, the more easily it obscured one's senses at the time...
For Yukino, it had been nothing short of shocking to see a chef capable of producing delicious food judged to have no talent for cooking. It had made her understand, for the first time, the gap between herself and professional chefs, as well as Totsuki's cruelty. Thus, the deeply shaken Yukino had also been deceived by her memories—she had excessively exaggerated the deliciousness of that dish in her recollections and overestimated Totsuki!
In her eyes, Sogo Doma's cooking might have reached a certain level, but